Google is telling me that quarantiner isn't a word. Quarantinee isn't either apparently. Quarantinites? Quarantinese? Nope and nope. Not sure what to call us....
Anyway, here is how our days have been rolling out:
❇ If it's been a good night, wake up about 5:30. If it's not been as good, it's much, much earlier.
❇ Lounge around. Call home. Check messages. Try to go back to sleep. Etc.
❇ Say some prayers. Begin study. 
❇ 7:00ish breakfast arrives. Try to get used to veggies like this for breakfast.
❇ Finish study. Think about showering.
❇ Look out the window. Watch students at the nearby school do tai chi.
❇ Think a bit more about showering. I have to wash more underwear if I change out of them.
❇ Read very nice notes our YW sent with the girls to have something to open each day. Makes me cry.
❇ Temperature check.
❇ Yoga routine. (life saver) Exercise has to wait until after temperature checks so I'm not overheated.
❇ Take a shower.
❇ Eat a snack.
❇ Index a batch. This is what I envisioned I'd be doing a lot of during quarantine. But the website has not been cooperating very well with me. I've been lucky to get in a single batch a day. 😔
❇ Get a nose or throat swab.
❇ Eat another snack. This was a normal occurrence prior to the news of adding 11 more days and Tom and I are starting to ration snacks to make sure there is enough for the girls throughout.
❇ Read WeChat messages from our chatty Branch group.
❇ Duo Lingo for Chinese practice. Doesn't seem to be helping much!
❇ Assign out jobs for the day: fold the previous day's laundry, make beds, sweep up crumbs, organize areas, put the trash out the door, Clorox wipe the bathroom, wash more clothes...
❇ Ask what time it is. It's usually several HOURS earlier to the time we all think it is.
❇ 11:30 lunch arrives. A fruit usually comes with each lunch. Highlight of the day!
❇ Do something with our assigned person (no screens!). (These rotate each day. Yesterday, Tom and I had our executive council in the bathroom---Tessa hates whispering and that was our only choice!) Today I had time with Greta. We played Jaipur.
❇ Break up some squabbles.
❇ Color in a coloring book + listen to conference talks
❇ Look out the window.
❇ Temperature check #2
❇ Write in journal.
❇ Wish to eat a snack. (see above)
❇ Zentangle + podcast
❇ Nap.
❇ Wait for dinner. Break up some squabbles.
❇ Watch how to make Chocolate Banana Croissants--a Korean street food with Tessa.
❇ 5:00 dinner arrives. 
❇ Color some more.
❇ Another yoga routine.
❇ Attempt some Chinese. A "Thank you" to hang on our door.
❇ Write a blog post.
Call it a day! More work tomorrow!
It's a pretty plush life, really!
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